By Dahlia Schweitzer
ISBN-10: 081359314X
ISBN-13: 9780813593142
ISBN-10: 0813593158
ISBN-13: 9780813593159
In Going Viral, Dahlia Schweitzer probes outbreak narratives in movie, tv, and quite a few different media, placing them in dialog with rhetoric from executive specialists and information enterprises that experience capitalized on public fears approximately our altering international. She identifies 3 targeted varieties of outbreak narrative, every one resembling a particular modern anxiousness: globalization, terrorism, and the top of civilization. Schweitzer considers how those fears, stoked via either fictional outbreak narratives and respectable resources, have encouraged the methods americans relate to their buddies, understand foreigners, and regard social institutions.
taking a look at every thing from i'm Legend to The X Files to World struggle Z, this ebook examines how outbreak narratives either excite and horrify us, conjuring our nightmares whereas letting us delight in fantasies approximately scuffling with contaminated Others. Going Viral hence increases provocative questions about the price of public paranoia and the ability agents who make the most of it.
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